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The Plant Health Australia (PHA) office will be closed from the afternoon of Friday 21 December 2018 until Wednesday 2 January 2019.
The Board and staff of PHA wish you all a happy Christmas and a safe holiday season.
In the event of an emergency plant pest incident or for any other urgent matters, please contact:
Greg Fraser, Executive Director and CEO, 0419 503 315 or gfraser@phau.com.au More
The Australian and state governments and the beekeeping industry participated in Exercise Bee Prepared this year to improve their readiness to respond to a detection of varroa mite (Varroa destructor).
For the exercise, Plant Health Australia facilitated a series of activities and discussion workshops to test the response to a detection of this serious pest of honey bees. More
The Board and staff of Plant Health Australia (PHA) would like to thank all members who took the time to complete our survey, in which they were asked to rate the performance of PHA programs, communication activities and other initiatives.
The online survey and several in depth interviews were done in mid-2018, following up on previous surveys in 2015 and 2012. More
Exercise Fastidious was held in Brisbane on 14-15 November 2018. There were 59 attendees from 29 organisations: the Australian Government, all state and territory governments, 13 plant peak industry bodies, PHA, Hort Innovation, CSIRO and representatives from New Zealand government and industries. More
Identifying potentially high-risk sites for entry and establishment of exotic forest pests is underway through a pilot national forest pest surveillance program.
Forest Biosecurity Coordinator, Paco Tovar, says that there are pilot projects running in NSW, Victoria and Queensland. More
Plant Health Australia announces changes to the roles of some Board members following annual meetings in Canberra last week.
Liz Alexander has been appointed as Deputy Chair. Liz, who has been on the PHA Board for five years, is the Agribusiness Development Coordinator for the Central Highlands Development Corporation in Emerald, Queensland. More
Exercise Fastidious has begun in Brisbane today (14 November 2018). The exercise, funded by Hort Innovation, will test the response to the detection of Xylella fastidiosa, with a focus on the production nursery sector.
Participants will be asked to consider the technical feasibility eradication, complexes (e.g. More
Growers, agronomists, extension professionals and international researchers gathered at a recent series of workshops to improve preparedness for a high priority exotic fly pest, spotted wing drosophila.
Plant Health Australia, CESAR and Plant & Food Research New Zealand are working together on a Hort Innovation funded project to improve the preparedness of horticultural industries for the exotic fly. More
At the end of October, Plant Health Australia’s Executive Director and CEO, Greg Fraser, and other staff spent two days in Melbourne facilitating a workshop for a project to develop a plant pest surveillance network in Australia’s botanic gardens and arboreta. More
There were three events related to forest biosecurity in August and September 2018. They were:
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